DANISH NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1925, is the oldest Radio Symphony Orchestra in the world. Two conductors in particular have largely been responsible for building up the orchestra from the start: the legendary Fritz Busch, and the Russian Nicolai Malko, who is still honoured by the orchestra every third year at the International Malko Competition for Young Conductors. Many of this century's great conductors have conducted the orchestra, among them Paul Kletzki, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowsky, Bruno Walter, Rafael Kubelik, Sergio Celibidache, Vaclav Neumann, Daniel Barenboim, Paavo Berglund, Sixten Ehrling and Herbert Blomstedr. Other contemporary conductors of the orchestra include international top figures like Giuseppe Sinopoji, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov, Gennady Rozhdesrvensky, Eyvgeny Sverlanov as well as Kurt Sanderling. In 1995 the German conductor Ulf Schirmer takes over as principal conductor of the orchestra. Leif Segerstam will be associated as honorary conductor, with Dmitri Kitaenko and Michael Schønwandt as principal guest conductors. Touring forms a major part of the orchestra's activities and includes regular visits to the United States and several European countries. Throughout the years countless recordings of the orchestra have been issued, the most recent including complete cycles of symphonies by Sibelius and Mahler on the Chandos label as well as numerous Danish works on the label Dacapo. The orchestra has just begun on a new collaboration with Decca and Ulf Schirmer on works by Carl Nielsen.

The Sparekassen Bikuben A/S (savings bank) is sponsor of the DNRSO and Choir.

For further information please visit dr.dk/koncerthuset.

Photo courtesy of Tine Juel

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BENTZON, N.V.: Feature on Rene Descartes / COLDING-JORGENSEN: To Love Music	BIS-CD-79
BERG, G: Pastourelle / Cosmogonie / Aria	DCCD 9007
BORUP-JOSGENSEN: Sommasvit / Nordisk Sommerpastorale	8.224030
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM - Dance Portrait (PAL)	100174
Danish Golden Age Music	8.224020
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN: For Cello and Orchestra / Concerto Grosso / Frere Jacques	8.224060
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN: Symphony-Antiphony / RASMUSSEN: Symphony in Time	DCCD 9010
HAMERIK, A.: Symphony No. 7 / Requiem (Stene, Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, Dausgaard)	8.226033
HARTMANN : Overtures	8.224097
HARTMANN, J.P.E.: Liden Kirsten (Little Christine)	8.224106-07
HARTMANN: Overtures	8.226061
HARTMANN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2	8.224042
HOLMBOE: Cello Concerto / Benedic Domino / Quintet	BIS-CD-78
HOLMBOE: Chamber Concertos Nos. 4-6	8.224063
King Frederik IX Conducts the Danish National Radio Symphony	8.224158-59
KOPPEL: Cello Concerto / NORHOLM: Violin Concerto	BIS-CD-80
KOPPEL: Moses	8.224046
KUHLAU: Elverhoj	8.224053
KUHLAU: Elverhoj	DCCD 8902
KUNZEN: Holger Danske	8.224036-37
KUNZEN: The Hallelujah of Creation	8.224070
LANGE-MULLER: Der var Engang	8.224084
LANGE-MULLER: Renaissance / I Alhambra	8.224109
LANGGAARD, R.: Symphonies Nos. 6, "Det Himmelrivende", 7 and 8, "Minder ved Amalienborg" (Danish National Symphony, Dausgaard)	8.224180
LANGGAARD, R.: Symphonies Nos. 9, "Fra Dronning Dagmars by", 10, "Hin Torden-bolig" and 11, "Ixion" (Danish National Symphony, Dausgaard)	8.224182
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6	8.224169
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3	8.224126
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5	8.224156
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1 and 6, "Sinfonia semplice" (Danish National Radio Symphony, Schonwandt)	8.570737
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - Nos. 2, "The 4 Temperaments" and 3, "Sinfonia espansiva" (Danish National Radio Symphony, Schonwandt)	8.570738
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies, Vol. 3 - Nos. 4, "The Inextinguishable" and 5 (Danish National Radio Symphony, Schonwandt)	8.570739
NIELSEN, L.: Symphony No. 1 / From the Mountains	8.224093
NIELSEN, L.: Tower of Babel (The) / Forest Walk	8.224157
NORGARD, P.: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 7 (Danish National Radio Symphony, Dausgaard)	6.220547
NORGARD: Gilgamesh / Voyage into the Golden Screen	DCCD 9001
NORGARD: I Ching / XENAKIS: Psappha / GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN: Triptykon	BIS-CD-256
NORGARD: Luna / Symphony No. 3 / Twilight	8.224041
NORGARD: Lygtemaendene tager til byen / SORENSEN: Den lille havfrue	8.226046
NORGARD: Siddharta / Percussion Concerto, 'For a Change'	8.224031-32
NORGARD: Symphony No. 3 / Twilight	DCCD 8901
NORGARD: Viola Concerto, 'Remembering Child' / Between	DCCD 9002
RUDERS: Symphony No. 2 / Piano Concerto	8.224125
SCHNITTKE: Cello Concerto No. 1 / Klingende Buchstaben / 4 Hymns	BIS-CD-507
SEGERSTAM, L.: Symphony No. 18 in one thought / Epitaph No. 6 / Impressions of Nordic Nature No. 4 / Flower Bouquet No. 43E (Segerstam)	ODE877-2
SEGERSTAM: Symphony No. 16 / Nocturne	BIS-CD-584
SEGERSTAM: Symphony No. 17, Streamings in the Soul	BIS-CD-684
SEGERSTAM: Thoughts	BIS-CD-583
SORENSEN : Sterbende Garten / The Echoing Garden	8.224039
TARP: Te Deum / Symphony No. 7 / Piano Concerto	DCCD 9005
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Swan Lake (Studio Production, 1990) (PAL)	100438
ZEMLINSKY, A. von: Es war einmal … [Opera]	C60019-2